YOKO ONO, SEAN LENNON AND SUSAN SARANDON TALK WITH LOCAL ACTIVISTS IN DIMOCK

Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon and Susan Sarandon talk with Ray Kemble (in gray hat), local activists and media regarding hydraulic fracturing for gas reserves in Dimock, Pennsylvania.

“This is not a place we should be delivering water on trucks.”
Sean Ono Lennon, the musician and son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, was holding a mic, but he wasn't singing. He was addressing about 30 passengers from the front of a bus driving through wooded, snow-dusted northeastern Pennsylvania. Josh Fox, director of the 2010 documentary Gasland, sat in the front row, looking up at Lennon from under his signature New York Yankees cap. Ono was four rows back, her gray fedora tilted starboard.
The activists had traveled three hours from Manhattan to Dimock, Pennsylvania, a town featured in Fox’s film. The region is at war with itself over the natural-gas drilling technology called hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and the air pollution and water contamination that have alarmed some residents since the practice took off several years ago. The trip was a tour of frack sites designed to attract press attention and convince New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to delay fracking regulations that he must rule on by Feb. 27.

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